Weed Quotes - Page 18

• She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

  Nancy Price

  Life, Eye, Garden

  Nancy Price (1991). “Sleeping with the enemy”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Moving, Ocean, Years

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• Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four of the five remaining 1932 Aston Martins still in road-worthy condition after you'd paid for life's little necessities like hookers and weed, get your medulla oblongata out of your duodenum for a few milliseconds, and make a tackle or two, okay, Babe?

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Two, Salary

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• Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.

  Hal Porter

  Uplifting, Adventure, Loss

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• My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Ideas, Gardening, Care

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.337, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Flower, Marijuana, Deeds

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• But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

  Miriam Toews

  Grief, Mushrooms, Buzz

  Miriam Toews (2014). “A Complicated Kindness”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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• Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

  Hakuun Yasutani

  Regret, Hate, Fall

  Hakuun Yasutani (1996). “Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan”, Shambhala Publications

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• On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old Timberland boot if you can rig it up and get some weed some out of it. I'll smoke that. Man, I've been saying that for years, so I might just try to make me a Timberland boot contraption that you can smoke weed out of. I think I'm gonna try it."

  Devin the Dude

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Inward, May

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• Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.

  Mort Crim

  Flower, Next Week, Years

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marijuana, Degrees, Literature

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• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

  William Bernbach

  Jobs, Shining, Tears

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• I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.

  Andy Andrews

  Dollars, Needs, Grass

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.

  Juicy J

  Kids, Littles, Doing Me

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• This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Garden, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.41, Rodale

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• I simply don't like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn't look right and it doesn't look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don't need any drug to step out of myself. I don't want them and I do not need them.

  Werner Herzog

  Mistake, Hippie, Thinking

  "Werner Herzog on His Unique Career, Clowns, and Getting Punk’d by Mel Brooks". Interview with Steve Marsh, www.vulture.com. August 3, 2014.

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• I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Garden, Thinking, Two

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• We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Thinking, Evil

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• Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Ideas, Training

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.29, Booklassic

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• So many people have bad intentions, so many girls want to hang out [with me] to be someone. I weed those people out of my life. I call them hungry tigers.

  Paris Hilton

  Girl, People, Want

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• I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Sea, Foam

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

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• Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

  Vera Farmiga

  New York, Moving, Perfectly Normal

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• It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Happiness, Work, Flower

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